A huge can of worms. Updated.
Where should state health care end & personal responsibility begin, a question I reckon we'll all have to answer very shortly, the NHS in the UK has appealed & lost a court case over whether it's the health service that should provide the drug HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), this is a pre-exposure drug effective at preventing hiv-aids & the NHS estimate of cost is £20 million a year, quite how they've estimated how many would need to take it is another question
, there are as I see it two moral questions here -Firstly, should members of the public be expected to pay for someone else's irresponsible s*xual practises, it could be argued that £20m isn't that much & the NHS spends way more on people who overeat or smoke
Secondly, and this is the biggy, if you've decided the NHS should provide this drug free the next step will be - Why aren't we providing it for 3rd world countries where the risks are even higher, are there lives not worth as much as ours
The £20m would look like small change compared to the cost of providing this drug free to say just Africa, how much are we all prepared to pay for someone else's sex life
Update, news today, seems possible the above is possibly no longer relevant
no need of expensive pre-exposure drug when they may have the cure 
If so now the question will be who funds the drugs for the 35 million sufferers 
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Good question
Im off to meditate for an answer,
Note I did not say medicate for an answer.
There's a clue in there.
Now for the medical necessity if those who by accident acquired it, then the government should give assistance, but very careful on the implementation procedures.
The last thing I would concur us to create encouragement of being irresponsible.
I see your point, its like tax payers buying all heart attack victims,
money for cigs booze and fish'n'chips. Which I'm sure they are not supposed to but do
Read the sad stories of families. Very sad Z.
If you permit me, I'd answer with another question.
Imagine a chick. Perfect hour-glass figure with an amazing pair o melons the likes of which you only see on a film or a photo-shopped picture of some lady; yeah? Do you blame a guy for going for it head-long given even the slightest chance?
Personally, I can more than understand his irresponsibility.
High risk people are also given flu vaccines every year to prevent them getting the flu. They aren't just told not to go outdoors and risk infection.
Prevention is better than cure.
My point is contrary to Tenner's tendencies, I make sure there's a strict practice of avoiding loopholes that leads to getting victimized.
If you're saying pay what about protecting those high risk groups in the 3rd world
Then what makes me not doubt that there's a monetary contract between the pharmacy and the government? Maybe I'm wrong but I wouldn't underestimate the power of education for prevention.
It's a deadly virus.
That is recognised both in his own country and in the entire world.
There is a shift in politics in SA now, and that president will be toppled, and probably jailed, in the near future.
Nature in action pal ...
I am well aware of the issues there, I studied it before. That 'man' represents the ignorance of many.
That is why I said education and health promotion, from the bottom up, is the only way to deal with the issues there.
Well ok, not embarrassed as that rarely happens, and it is quite difficult to shock me as well
so carry on
But I haven't done any studies on that
That reminded me of the Bryan Brown character in Along Came Polly